The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

But if you come together and say, ‘This is a community college project,’ and half of the community colleges in the state are all doing one application, you're more likely to find success. When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Law students entering school in 2023 are the most racially diverse group yet, continuing a multi-year trend. Jermaine Cruz “Forty percent are students of color, compared to 39% in 2022, and 36.9% in 2020, and 35.3% Over the last three years, Black law school applicants have made up roughly 7.8% in 2021, [and] 36.2%

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

We released a report pretty early in the pandemic, and it was based on a survey that we ran in fall of 2020 to our entering student population. DA: And one of the questions that we asked them in fall of 2020, very early in the semester, was does your college have support services to help you with stresses related to the pandemic?

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Scholarship America

APRIL 3, 2023

While the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) typically opens for applications on October 1, the application for the 2024-25 school year has been delayed until sometime in December—a delay that could have ripple effects on students, families and scholarship programs. How will applicants be impacted?

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

Three years ago, Congress enacted long-overdue reforms in the passage of the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020, which substantially improves Federal student aid process. The delay of the 2023 FAFSA launch from October 1 to December worries advocates of greater access to college for low-income students.

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College Planners of America

JANUARY 31, 2024

There had already been several delays in releasing the new FAFSA since the enactment of the FAFSA Simplification Act (the Act) in 2020 that overhauled the FAFSA process and the form itself. Exacerbating the problem is the fact that the FAFSA being released by the ED has a major defect that would cost students up to $1.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Applications to and enrollment in HBCU institutions have continued to increase. In the first year, 68 school districts and individual charter schools were invited to participate with a focus on low-income students. Data shows that unmet mental health needs are linked to adverse student outcomes.

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College Planners of America

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Education Department (ED) is no longer accepting applications for its student debt forgiveness plan (the Plan) after a Texas judge halted its rollout in a November 10th ruling. Studentaid.gov, the ED’s website for student aid programs, announced the following : “Courts have issued orders blocking our student debt relief program.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Because students are motivated to submit the form soon after it becomes available, the majority of completed FAFSA’s are submitted and processed in October and November, so colleges have ISIR’s for many students even before they receive applications from them. The ED’s help line was seldom available.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Because students are motivated to submit the form soon after it becomes available, the majority of completed FAFSA’s are submitted and processed in October and November, so colleges have ISIR’s for many students even before they receive applications from them. The ED’s help line was seldom available.

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